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Thursday, October 23, 2025
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Topic: Bonds

India’s bond market is so hot even Baba Ramdev is selling debt

Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali & Wipro are among 91 maiden bond sellers this year compared to only 61 making their bond-market debut in the same period 2019.

Foreigners are fleeing India’s bond market just when it needs them most

The amount of sovereign securities held by global funds has slumped Rs 76,700 crore from this year’s peak in February as steep hedging costs diminished pay-offs.

How state govts are crowding out cash-strapped companies from debt market

State govts are planning to crank up bond sales by 18.2% this quarter from a year earlier to make up for a decline in tax revenue due to slowdown.

Foreigners are dumping Indian bonds fearing widening fiscal deficit

Global funds have turned net sellers of India’s sovereign bonds for the first time in four months, as expectations grow of a wider fiscal deficit.

After rough and tumble of 2019, Indian bonds greet 2020 with hope

The negative narrative surrounding India’s debt market comes at a time benchmark yields are set for first annual drop in 3 years.

Fears of stimulus package keep Indian bond prices in check

Scepticism over Modi govt’s fiscal restraint persists & bond gains sparked last week by a record fund transfer from RBI didn’t last even one session.

After Modi govt announcements, Indian stocks, bonds rally despite selloff in rest of Asia

Equities bucked the selloff in Asia as trade tensions that roiled stocks globally eased somewhat following Donald Trump stating that China asked to re-start trade talks.

Interest rate cuts will make a difference only when they’re transmitted down the line

Banking sector reform won’t lead to an immediate change, but in the medium term, it will help transmission of policy rates to bank lending rates.

This is what is spooking India’s bond market

What's troubling the market - beyond the known $100 billion deficit for next fiscal - is the additional, below-the-radar govt funding it's being asked to provide.

Bond bulls return to India to fuel best quarter in over year

Expectations of rate increase by the RBI have weakened after the slump in price on Brent crude. Mumbai: Oil’s price collapse is driving India’s sovereign...

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Pakistan can’t bend Taliban with bombs. It must stop the Yemen-isation of Durand Line

This confrontation looks subcontracted—escalation to re-establish Pakistan's indispensability to outside capitals while squeezing Afghanistan back under an old paradigm.

Boom to bust: Haunted by Ketan Parekh saga, 117-yr-old Calcutta Stock Exchange’s future lies in limbo

CSE, one of India’s oldest bourses, is edging towards a voluntary exit. It could never recover from market manipulation scam that caused a payment crisis at exchange back in 2001. 

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.